Diogenes articles from September 1999

Diogenes archives from September 1999

Borrowings go Round and Round. Transcending Borders and Religious Flexibility.
September 22, 1999... `Siberian hunters have never been able to get used to our insistence on pressing our God on everyone else, nor to our way of abasing ourselves before him when they see us as masters of all -- conquering the bear and the elk with our rifles,...

A Dynamic Continuity between Traditions.(African customs and spirituality)
September 22, 1999... Like most Africans(1), particularly those from Western Africa, I come from an oral tradition where the Word has a central place. Whether it is spiritual or educational, transmission takes place primarily through spoken exchange. Our traditions...

The Yezidis, People of the Spoken Word in the midst of People of the Book.(inhabitants of Iraq and surrounding areas)
September 22, 1999... Our books are our hearts Yezidi saying Among the Yezidis the cross-fertilization between the so-called religions of the Book and religions with an oral tradition is reaching a climax. Over the centuries layers of heterogeneous dogmas have...

Adaptive Strategies and Indigenous Resistance to Protestantism in Ecuador.
September 22, 1999... During the last ten years I have been working on the process of conversion to Protestantism of the indigenous people in Chimborazo province, Ecuador. Protestant evangelization in Ecuador started in the early twentieth century, but it is only in...

Cultural Interbreeding between Korean Shamanism and Imported Religions.
September 22, 1999... Introduction Korea has undergone so much transformation under modernization and industrialization to an extent that tourists visiting from anywhere in the world will not feel inconvenienced for lack of modern facilities. In this modern day...

Some New Religious Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1999... For some years now the proliferation of new religious movements in Africa and the search by individuals for new meanings in belief have held the interest of scholars of religion. But their interpretations of the significance of these `religious...

The Judaeo-Muslim Cultural World in Morocco: Written and Spoken.
September 22, 1999... Jewish thought and the Maghrebian cultural landscape If, at the outset, we postulate the totality of Jewish thought and lay down the principle of its organic unity and its call to universalism, thus asserting the active solidarity which...

Folk Religions in Modern Israel: Sacred Space in the Holy Land.
September 22, 1999... Israel is a country of many cultures and languages and of several religions. The majority of the population adheres to the Jewish religion. The Moslem and the Christian religions come next in size, in that order. Similarly to many other...

Sai Baba: The Double Utilization of Written and Oral Traditions in a Modern South Asian Religious Movement.
September 22, 1999... The Sai Baba movement, one of the most widespread and popular modern South Asian religious movements, owes its origin to a saint, Sai Baba of Shirdi (d.1918), who was probably born around 1838. Through his successor, Sathya Sai Baba (b.1926),...

The Adaptation of Buddhism to the West.
September 22, 1999... Buddhism was not really known in the West until a little more than 150 years ago. Although since the thirteenth century there had been numerous contacts with local Buddhist traditions, the travellers and missionaries of the Middle Ages and the...

Rereadings and Transformations of Sufism in the West.
September 22, 1999... Sufism between oral tradition and writing In his study of the conversion of Westerners to Islam, a Turkish sociologist revealed in 1996 that it happened that a significant proportion of the converts had adopted that religion under the...

From the Word to the Televisual Image: The Televangelists and Pope John Paul II.
September 22, 1999... Word, writing and image Until the beginning of the twentieth century Christianity, in order to proclaim its message, was based above all upon the word, the substance of prayer and preaching; certainly manuscripts, with the Scriptures and...

Two Thousand Years of Heresy: An Essay.
September 22, 1999... The source of my interest in the study of heresiology originates in many years of research on the work and life of Meister Eckhart. It is therefore in an Eckhartian perspective, which presupposes a certain leniency and even sympathy, towards...